Where we stand as of 2017 in U.S. Children’s Book Industry:

Where we should be if POC&Indigenous authors were telling our own stories:

The SILENCE we live with. How the last 12 years (& beyond) has impacted us:

Looking closer at US Publishers ONLY and the last 3 years:

And looking closer at the LGBTQI community:

***PLEASE NOTE: CCBC updated their statistics on books by LGBTQ authors from 21 to 56 on July 5th, 2018 (an increase of more than double which is interesting). So the numbers and percentages shown in the graphs will change slightly however the majority of books are STILL written from outside the community.

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A Powerful Tool for Social Change. Children’s books offer the potential to engage all of our creative faculties to transform the stories we, as people of color, queer, or indigenous people heard as children that often did not include us. Using a holistic approach, creating children’s books can heal and strengthen the creator as much as the reader.

This is the potential power available through children’s books and what we want to seed out into our communities. The 3 R’s—Reflection, Reclamation and Regeneration—help us envision a full and effective path of action that ultimately supports true power rising from our communities in the form of our OWN VOICES.

Reflection Press

Publish Books that REFLECT.

School of the Free Mind

Online School to RECLAIM.

We offer children’s book courses to support new authors, illustrators, and indie publishers through a holistic approach that engages the whole person and centers our communities in the book making & publishing process.

We're deeply committed to this work. We wish to support our communities in coming into voice and personal power, foster a publishing revolution from within and ultimately co-create a more just and equal world. We definitely rely on the funds we bring in from book sales, classroom registrations, speaking gigs, and other sources to help keep it going. If you like what we stand for and the work we're doing and would like to help us keep doing it, feel free to send a little monetary love our way. Support our Work

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**PLEASE NOTE: The majority of our books & materials are SHIPPING AS USUAL.
However, due to the current state of affairs, a few of our titles may take longer to ship. Those with longer turnaround times will be listed on their respective product page. Thanks for supporting our independent press! ** Dismiss